List commit history

GET/api/repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits

listRepositoryCommits

Returns a paginated commit log walking from the selected bookmark. Raw commit cursors must be reachable from the selected repository.

Authentication is not described for this operation in the spec — that does not mean it is public. Check tokens and scopes.

curl

curl -X GET 'https://neosource.dev/api/repos/OWNER/REPO/commits'

fetch

fetch("https://neosource.dev/api/repos/OWNER/REPO/commits", {
  method: "GET",
});

Path parameters

ownerrequired: Repository owner or organization slug.
string
reporequired: Repository name.
string

Query parameters

ref: Bookmark name to walk from. Defaults to the repository default branch.
string
per_page: Number of commits per page (max 100, default 30).
integerint32
after: Commit OID to start listing after (exclusive cursor for pagination). Must be reachable from the selected repository.
string
author: Filter to commits whose author name or email contains this string (case-insensitive). Applied along the branch-scoped walk.
string
since: Only commits authored at/after this RFC3339 timestamp.
string
until: Only commits authored at/before this RFC3339 timestamp.
string

Responses

200Commit list

application/json

CommitListResponse

object

commitsrequired

array

items

CommitResponse

object

authorrequired: CommitSignatureResponse
author_account: one of
null
AuthorRef
checks: one of
null
CommitChecksSummary
committerrequired: CommitSignatureResponse
committer_account: one of
null
AuthorRef
messagerequired: string
oidrequired: string
parentsrequired: array
items
string
pull_request: one of
null
CommitPullRequestRef
treerequired: string

has_morerequired

boolean

next_cursor

string | null

Explicit cursor to pass as `after` for the next page (the deepest commit walked). Present when `has_more`. Absent → use the last commit's `oid` (back-compat for the unfiltered path).

searched

integer | nullint32

Commits examined to produce this page — present only when a filter is active, so the UI can show "searched N commits".

Standard errors

Bodies documented once for the whole API — see standard errors.

400Bad Request — one of: invalid_input
403Forbidden — one of: forbidden
404Not Found — one of: not_found
423Locked — one of: busy
429Rate limited — retry after the interval in the `Retry-After` header
500Internal server error
503Service temporarily unavailable / at capacity — retry after the `Retry-After` header
504Gateway timeout — the request exceeded the server's handling budget

Schemas

Referenced above. Listed here rather than expanded inline, so the same definition is not repeated at every level.

`CommitSignatureResponse`

object

emailrequired: string
namerequired: string
timestamprequired: integerint64

`AuthorRef`

object

A commit author/committer resolved to a platform account, matched at read time on a **verified** email. `None` when the commit's email is not a verified account (imported history, an unverified address, a bot) — the raw `name`/`email` on the signature is still rendered, as GitHub does.

account_idrequired: string
display_namerequired: string
emailrequired: string
handlerequired: string

`CommitChecksSummary`

object

Rollup of everything that checked a commit: workflow runs it triggered plus external statuses posted against it. `state` follows [`CommitStatusState::rollup`] — `failure` if anything failed, `pending` while anything is still in flight, `success` only when all green.

failedrequired: integerint64
pendingrequired: integerint64
staterequired: CommitStatusState
string
State of a single commit status, GitHub-shaped. `Error` is distinct from `Failure` on individual statuses (infrastructure/tooling breakage vs. a real red result) but the combined rollup folds both into `Failure`.
"pending""success""failure""error"
succeededrequired: integerint64
totalrequired: integerint64

`CommitPullRequestRef`

object

The pull request a commit belongs to, resolved at read time by matching the commit against PR heads (`is_head = true`) and historical revision heads (`is_head = false`). `None` when the commit is not any PR's (current or past) head.

is_headrequired: boolean
`true` if this commit is the PR's current head; `false` if it is only a historical revision head.
numberrequired: integerint32
statusrequired: PullRequestStatus
string
Lifecycle status of a pull request.
"open""merged""closed"
titlerequired: string